Julian Assange quotes Showing 1-30 of 41 “Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. “Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.” “You have to start with the truth.
Ben Wizner from the American Civil Liberties Union said that prosecuting Assange "for violating US secrecy laws would set an especially dangerous precedent for US journalists, who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the public's interest".
Julian Assange. As a result of the revocation of his asylum, and at the request of his alleged rape victim's lawyer, Swedish prosecutors reopened their investigation in May 2019. Assange is incarcerated in HM Prison Belmarsh.
Le Monde.fr. 24 May 2019 – via Le Monde. ^ Opsahl, David Greene and Kurt (24 May 2019). "The Government's Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear and Present Danger to Journalism, the Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Speech".
Two weeks later, he filed for the trademark "Julian Assange" in Europe, which was to be used for "Public speaking services; news reporter services; journalism; publication of texts other than publicity texts; education services; entertainment services".
On 6 January, Assange was denied bail on the grounds that he was a flight risk , pending an appeal by the United States.
After WikiLeaks released the Manning material, United States authorities began investigating WikiLeaks and Assange personally to prosecute them under the Espionage Act of 1917. In November 2010, US Attorney-General Eric Holder said there was "an active, ongoing criminal investigation" into WikiLeaks. It emerged from legal documents leaked over the ensuing months that Assange and others were being investigated by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia.
Assange and others worked for a week to break the U.S. military's encryption of the video. In October 2010, Wikileaks published the Iraq War logs, a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports from the Iraq War covering the period from 2004 to 2009. Assange said that he hoped the publication would.
In November 2010, Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual misconduct. Assange said the allegations were a pretext for his extradition from Sweden to the United States over his role in the publication of secret American documents.
He was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison. The United States government unsealed an indictment against Assange, related to the leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. On 23 May 2019, the United States government further charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
Assange and others established WikiLeaks in 2006. Assange became a member of the organisation's advisory board and described himself as the editor-in-chief. From 2007 to 2010, Assange travelled continuously on WikiLeaks business, visiting Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
If a statement about reality cannot be true or false, then it would be nothing more than a bunch of sounds void of meaning or semantic content —like a grunt or a moan. As such, the statement, “There is no truth” would be nonintelligible.
If the relativist says this statement is true, then that means there is at least one true thing —namely that there is no truth. But this is a contradiction—it’s true that there is no truth. Plain absurdity! The other option is to say the statement is false. But of course no relativist would want to say that.
But of course no relativist would want to say that. Perhaps the relativist responds, “Your objection does not work, because it presupposes what I am denying —namely, truth and falsity.”. The problem with this response is that it undermines the assertion of any statement, including the statement, “I deny that truth or falsity exists.”.
The statement ‘There is no absolute truth’ is only relatively true.”. This is problematic as well. The relativist’s use of the verb is implies an assertion about the objective order of things. It suggests conformity to reality. The relativist is suggesting that the statement “There is no absolute truth” really is relatively true.
The second claim, however, acknowledges truth, but only in the sense that something corresponds to an internal set of beliefs—it’s true in a relative sense, not an absolute sense.
If the relativist responds “yes,” then it follows that there is at least one absolute truth —namely, the statement itself. But, like the first formulation, this is a contradiction—it’s absolutely true that there is no absolute truth. Suppose the relativist answers our question, “No!